THE FEDERAL SIEGE AT RUBY RIDGE

[dont-blameme]

A part of what happened. Friday, August 21, the first day of the debacle, 14-year-old Samuel Weaver was shot to death by U.S. Special Operations Marshals, as he ran for home. During the same ambush, Marshal William Francis Degan, from Quincy, MA, died at the hands of his own men. The next day, FBI sniper, a man who specializes in death without warning, Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi killed Vicki Weaver, 43, as she stood in the doorway of her home, holding her 10-month-old daughter, Elisheba, in her arms. Randy Weaver, 44, was shot in the back without warning by Horiuchi’s observer Dale Monroe, as Kevin Harris, 24-year-old Weaver friend, suffered gunshot wounds to his left arm and chest. The five survivors barricaded themselves in a 32' x 24' clapboard cabin with no further communication until I was able to intervene. The siege ended after 11-days without further bloodshed on 31 August — despite federal determination to the contrary.            
In the end, it was acknowledged that elite Special Operations U.S. Marshals lied about the Weavers and how Degan died. Their false reports to cover their own irresponsible acts precipitated the deadly "Nobody comes off that mountain alive" attitude by the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris were exonerated of numerous charges, including murder, by a federal criminal trial jury; while U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno agreed to pay $3.2 million to the Weavers for the wrongful deaths of mother Vicki and brother Sammy. September 23, 2000, AG Janet Reno paid Kevin Harris $380,000 for his injuries. Unfortunately, Lon Horiuchi was charged, but never tried for the murder of Vicki. In typical government fashion, an FBI investigation of itself resulted in a juggling of bureaucratic positions, a few resignations, but no real discipline. Memorializing the Oklahoma City Alfred Murrah Federal Building, government leadership presented both Horiuchi and Marshal Arthur Roderick, Jr., who shot Sammy in the back, with medals for their conspicuous gallantry.
 
 
http://www.bogritz.com/mybrotherskeeper1.htm

[HK91-762mm]

Unfortunately, Lon Horiuchi was charged,

Jw's hero--was at WACO also!!!
Must be shooting women and kids is Up his="ally"

[lluke47]

liberalism is a scourge, plague and disease that should be eradicated from America..

[keno]

Jw's hero--was at WACO also!!!


Indeed he was. Sniping more civilians.  If he had murdered my wife like he did Vicki Weaver, I'd have spent every cent of the money paid out to me in damages, hunting him down, and making things right.

[Neckbone72]

what does liberalism have to do with Ruby Ridge?

[KensanIV]

Janet Reno has bigger balls than Holder.

[Neckbone72]

What does Janet Reno have to do with Ruby Ridge?

[Dardmex]

Neckbone72 --- Two of America's all-time greatest Attorney Generals are Janet Reno and Eric Holder!

And only ONE of them was slapped with contempt charges by the U.S. House of Representatives!

http://www.dailykos.com  ...............  http://www.MoveOn.org

[Neckbone72]

what do either of them have to do with Ruby Ridge?

[HK91-762mm]

  Janet the hunn Was WACO-- Ruby Ridge started under Papa Bush [Read My Lips Ill enact gun bans through executive orders] finished under Klinton!!

[Neckbone72]

"finished" under Clinton?  You mean because he was in office during the trial afterword?
 
What did Clinton have to do with it?

[Neckbone72]

what makes you think Reno was at Ruby Ridge?